Word: attempt
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hurled his chair through the screen of the television set at the Beta Theta Pi fraternity house. His birthday-Sept. 14-had come up No. 1 in the national draft lottery. Harvard Senior Nat Spiller, too nervous to watch the drawing on TV, was playing pingpong in an attempt to calm himself. Returning to his room when the selection was well under way, he looked at a list his roommates had been keeping and slumped into a chair. His birthday had come up fourth. Across the country in California, Stanford University Sophomore Tyler Comann stared at his roommate, Charles Thulin...
...openness of these canvases is clearly contrasted by a room of odd little boxes by Joseph Cornell. He places Victorian mantelpiece objects., medicine bottles, and birds behind glass or a wire, closing them into a three dimensional space, like a tomb. These boxes seem to be the only attempt to frame three dimensional space in the context of the flat vision of the new American painting, but even this sort of ? D picture is lifeless compared to the original space of the abstract works...
...confrontation with Pop Art jolts his senses. Though from the same environment as the abstract artists, pop artists attack different questions concerning the nature of art. Like masters of still life, they select subjects from the material world around them. By boldly painting things from Commercial America, they attempt to smash the aesthetic values of European traditional art. In spite of flashes of popular success, the movement has failed to undermine standards, and to move beyond its initial inventions...
...Harvard community might be amused by the following. I appeared yesterday (12/4?69) at Memorial Hall to attempt to donate blood. After the initial formalities, I was asked a number of questions about my medical history, including whether I had ever taken any drugs. I naively answered yes-in connection with illnesses. The nurse said, no, she meant marijuana or L. S. D. Well, I said, of course I've smoked occasionally-but not very often. The last time? About two weeks ago. She disappeared behind a curtain and returned to say that on doctor's orders. I was permanently...
...shuffled his lineup in an attempt to gain strength in the lightweight classes, but the outlook is not too promising in the 126 and 134-pound matches...